Showing posts with label same-sex marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label same-sex marriage. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

How Accurate Was The Same-Sex Marriage Polling?

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The abrogation of responsibility and waste of resources that was the Marriage Law Postal Survey has now concluded with a Yes vote of 61.6% ,...
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Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Marriage Law Survey Turnout Is High ... But Not That High!

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(This article is being progressively updated through the survey - KB) The first release of turnout estimates from the Australian Bureau of...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Recent Polling On The Same-Sex Marriage Postal Survey

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The national ABS postal "survey" on whether the law should be changed to allow same-sex marriage in Australia is now in its second...
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Tuesday, September 12, 2017

A Free Speech Problem With Marriage Law Survey Safeguards

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Advance Summary 1. This article raises concerns about specific "hate speech" prohibitions in the Government's Marriage Law S...
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Monday, September 11, 2017

Response From ABS to Marriage Law Postal Survey Questions

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On 16 August I sent the ABS a list of fourteen questions regarding the conduct of the Marriage Law Postal Survey, in particular regarding c...
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Saturday, August 12, 2017

Will "Hate Speech" Be Illegal In The "Plebiscite"?

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Things are moving fast in the Government's attempt to conduct a national voluntary postal vote on same-sex marriage.  Although we won...
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Thursday, August 10, 2017

Electoral Process, But Not As We Know It: Postal Plebsicite V2

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An article I wrote about the serious defects of a postal plebiscite  (back on the annual day reserved for silly jokes) has for some unfathom...
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Tuesday, July 4, 2017

All Polling On The Plebiscite Has Problems

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In the last few weeks we've seen some new polling results concerning the Coalition's proposed plebiscite on legalising same-sex marr...
Saturday, April 1, 2017

Postal Plebiscite: Australia's Biggest Bad Elector Survey

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(Note added Aug 2017: This article from April has received much interest lately.  For new comments go to Electoral Process, But Not As We Kn...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Poll Roundup: Attack Of The Poll-Shaped Objects

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2PP Aggregate: 52.8 to Labor (-0.8 since last week) Labor would comfortably win election "held right now" This week has been a ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Poll Roundup: Bad Start For The Second Turnbull Government

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It's early days, but here we go again ... 2PP Aggregate: 51.5 to Labor (+0.6) Labor has led since aggregate resumed Welcome back ...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Proposed Anti-Discrimination Changes And "Don't Mess With Marriage"

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The Tasmanian Government has introduced the Anti-Discrimination Amendment Bill 2016 .  This differs little from a draft version that was cir...
Monday, August 1, 2016

Gaynor's Clueless Call For Senate Recount

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A reader today drew my attention to this piece by Bernard Gaynor claiming apparent irregularities in the Tasmanian Senate count, and callin...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

A Same-Sex Marriage Plebiscite Is An Even Worse Idea Now

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Last year I wrote a piece called A Same-Sex Marriage Plebiscite Is A Terrible Idea .  At the time I wrote it, Tony Abbott was still Prime Mi...
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Sunday, June 26, 2016

Does The Coalition Need Far-Right Preferences To Win?

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I had this bit in my Poll Roundup, but decided it was too long, so I moved it to a separate article and expanded it a bit.  It gets a bit ra...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Poll Roundup: Newspoll Smells The Coffee

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2PP Aggregate: 52.4 to Coalition (-0.1 since last week, +6 since Abbott was PM) Coalition would easily win election "held now" ...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Poll Roundup: The Dog Ate My Recovery

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2PP Aggregate: 53.4 to ALP (+0.3 since last week) ALP would easily win election "held now" It's over a month now since Bron...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Poll Roundup: Behind Longer Than Howard

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2PP Aggregate: 53.1 to ALP (-0.3 in a week)  Labor would comfortably win election held "right now" Time for another federal pol...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Poll Roundup: No Instant Damage After Shocking Week

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2PP Aggregate: 53.4 to Labor (unchanged) Labor would win election "held now" comfortably Last week the Coalition had an extreme...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Poll Roundup: More Trouble For Coalition

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2PP Aggregate: 53.4 to Labor (+0.6 in one week, +1.6 in four weeks, highest since start of March) Labor would win election "held now...
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